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Continental Insurance (DHA:CONTININS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : BDT Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Continental Insurance Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Continental Insurance's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was BDT0.00 Mil. Continental Insurance does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Continental Insurance Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Continental Insurance's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Continental Insurance Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.


Continental Insurance  (DHA:CONTININS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Continental Insurance Business Description

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1 Mohakhali C/A, Advanced Noorani Tower, 13th Floor, Dhaka, BGD, 1212
Continental Insurance Ltd is engaged in the general insurance business in Bangladesh. The company offers fire insurance products, industrial and property damage all risks; motor insurance products for private, commercial, and miscellaneous vehicles, as well as motorcycles; and marine cargo insurance and others.

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